Development of Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Module for Vehicular Communication Emulation through the MS-VAN3T Framework

Nowadays, the vehicle industries in toto are in the middle of a revolution. In a quite near future the vehicles will be connected with all the possible players of transportation, thanks to the new technologies such as Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) connection, and fully automated further in the future. V2X refers to a set of technologies enabling the wireless data exchange between the vehicle and any other entity in its surrounding, like pedestrians (V2P), networks (V2N), vehicles (V2V) and infrastructure (V2I). This revolution is leading the transportation system towards a safer and more effcient way of travel. In facts, the association between all those partecipants will lead the creation of new vehicular network technologies for the automotive industry, and those are classified into 3 main groups: Road safety applications, Traffic efficiency and management applications, Infotainment applications. These new technologies, wrapped into the so called Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), need to be verified and properly tested: due to their high development cost, the simulation tools play a key role in order to not to waste important resources. ITS identities all those systems that use technologies, communications and information processing to improve the current mobility experience enhancing the transportation safety, the mobility and the productivity of the transportation infrastructure. Major components of ITS are vehicle/user applications for localization/identification, information collection and exchange; road infrastructure, through which ITS can provide information, monitor and control road traffic and services provisioning. Finally, communication networks Vehicular Ad hoc Networks ( VANETs) that allow information transfer between vehicles as well as between vehicles and infrastructure. Crucial for the Automotive Industry is to use Tool for the simulation of their product, and in the particular case of this thesis work studies, to simulate Urban Mobility and Networks. The goal of this thesis work is to create a module for a a open-source vehicular network simulation framework, MS-VAN3T, called IVI service, able to manage the generation, transmission and reception of the Infrastructure to Vehicle Messages (IVIMs). IVIMs are an Infrastructure-to-Vehicle (I2V) messages format conveying information about infrastructure-based traffic services needed for the implementation of use cases focusing on road safety and traffic efficiency. Once the overall system it will have been described and after a deep presentation of IVI messages, an example of its applications will be given in order to give to the reader a better understating of what this kind of service can do.